Comments on: More on Tablets and Apples http://pigpog.com/2005/05/02/more-on-tablets-and-apples/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://pigpog.com/2005/05/02/more-on-tablets-and-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Joe Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-36 <p>There are so many similarities these days it doesn't take much to learn the way of mac. If you like your windows software...keep it. You can still buy from M$ and own Virtual PC. You'll have a spyware, malware, virus ware free mac..except if you choose to keep browsing under "windows" and using windoze email.</p> <p>Why get a computer that when you want to shut down...you have to go to what...start? Why get another computer that slows to a crawl when you have infections coming in from everywhere except deep space? You won't know how much you could enjoy all of mac's software possibilites until you try it. You don't have an iPod ?</p> There are so many similarities these days it doesn’t take much to learn the way of mac. If you like your windows software…keep it. You can still buy from M$ and own Virtual PC. You’ll have a spyware, malware, virus ware free mac..except if you choose to keep browsing under “windows” and using windoze email.

Why get a computer that when you want to shut down…you have to go to what…start? Why get another computer that slows to a crawl when you have infections coming in from everywhere except deep space? You won’t know how much you could enjoy all of mac’s software possibilites until you try it. You don’t have an iPod ?

]]> By: pigpogm http://pigpog.com/2005/05/02/more-on-tablets-and-apples/comment-page-1/#comment-37 pigpogm Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-37 <p>Actually, Joe, I went for the tablet, and I love it. Being able to use it as a slate really opens up the options for using it - especially in odd places, like in the car (parked, not driving ;) ).</p> <p>If I was going to keep running the same software inside Virtual PC, I think it would have been a waste of time switching. If I was going to switch, I'd have wanted to switch to all Mac native apps, not keep running the same stuff in a window on a Mac.</p> <p>I've been running Windows for a long time, though, and I know what I'm doing with it pretty well. Not had a virus since shortly after I started using PCs, in the days before Windows, and never had a spyware infection yet. I'm running IE now, as it seems to get on with the tablet better than FireFox does, which does leave me a bit more open, but with up-to-date patching and the firewall turned on all the time, there shouldn't be too much danger.</p> <p>And no, I don't have an iPod, but Sam does now :)</p> Actually, Joe, I went for the tablet, and I love it. Being able to use it as a slate really opens up the options for using it – especially in odd places, like in the car (parked, not driving ;) ).

If I was going to keep running the same software inside Virtual PC, I think it would have been a waste of time switching. If I was going to switch, I’d have wanted to switch to all Mac native apps, not keep running the same stuff in a window on a Mac.

I’ve been running Windows for a long time, though, and I know what I’m doing with it pretty well. Not had a virus since shortly after I started using PCs, in the days before Windows, and never had a spyware infection yet. I’m running IE now, as it seems to get on with the tablet better than FireFox does, which does leave me a bit more open, but with up-to-date patching and the firewall turned on all the time, there shouldn’t be too much danger.

And no, I don’t have an iPod, but Sam does now :)

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